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Speaker 1: Ahead an American Sunrise early edition. President Trump calls that

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Speaker 1: Democrat video urging active duty troops to disobey orders an

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Speaker 1: active sedition and a capital crime because it is. But

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Speaker 1: of course, now the Democrats are pretending Trump's reaction is

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Speaker 2: That's called gas lighting.

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Speaker 3: A surprise in.

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Speaker 1: The jobs report shows more than double the job creation

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Speaker 1: in September than economists we're expecting. But now there's less

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Speaker 1: of a chance of a FED rate cut next month.

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Speaker 1: So is good news bad news? So that peace plan

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Speaker 1: don't laugh. Ukrainian President Vladimzalinski has not rejected it, and

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Speaker 1: he says he and his advisors are going to work

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Speaker 1: oil markets think so they're optimistic.

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Speaker 3: This could be good.

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Speaker 1: President Trump will meet with New York City mayor like

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Speaker 1: Zorron Mamdani today with Mam Donnie apparently oblivious to the

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Speaker 1: fact that he was only elected because Trump deranged New

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Speaker 1: first place. He may have just destroyed his mayoralty before

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Speaker 1: it even gets started. And heads are rolling at Cracker

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Speaker 1: Barrel after that disastrous rebranding this past summer. Remember that,

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Speaker 1: But are the right heads rolling? American Sunrise Early Edition begins.

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Speaker 3: Now, Welcome to American Sunrise Early Edition, the show where faith, freedom,

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Speaker 3: and the values that built this nation takes centers.

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Speaker 2: To your good, thiefs and bad deeds. That's how we're

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Speaker 2: gonna judge you.

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Speaker 3: Join host Jake Novak because he breaks down the stories

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Speaker 3: that matter.

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Speaker 2: He will be letting the public know regularly what we

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Speaker 3: American Sunrise Early Edition with your host Jake Novak starts.

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Speaker 1: Now, Welcome to this not Time Friday. Here in American

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Speaker 1: Sunrise Early Edition. I have to apologize right off the bat,

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Speaker 1: not only to you, but to myself because the term

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Speaker 1: gaslighting is one of my least favorite terms in America

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Speaker 1: in Congress calling on our troops to just disobey orders.

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Speaker 1: They don't specifically say what order they're trying to foment,

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Speaker 1: and to create an entire coup like situation in the military.

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Speaker 1: They know what they're doing. And now that President Trump

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Speaker 1: has correctly called out that seditious behavior as treason ists

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Speaker 1: and by the way, treason is indeed a capital crime

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Speaker 1: in this country. They're pretending that, oh, you're the crazy one.

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Speaker 1: Why acting so crazy? Why crazy?

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Speaker 1: That's gas lighting. It actually is gaslighting. Most of the

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry to actually use it, but I'm sorry it

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Speaker 1: watching that all day here, not only on this program,

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Speaker 1: but on Real America's Voice. This is nothing new, nothing new.

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Speaker 1: We've seen this in throughout history, going directly to troops.

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Speaker 1: the Democrats are trying to gaslight President Trump, and you

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Speaker 1: don't let them get away with it. Meanwhile, we have

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Speaker 1: of my favorite experts inside of Texas. That's the state

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Speaker 1: I'm talking about, Tom Slocum. He's a former statewide Republican candidate.

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Speaker 1: He also consults with the oil and gas business. I

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Speaker 1: about that kind of stuff too. Tom, let's start about

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Speaker 1: with this situation that everyone was so glued to all summer,

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Speaker 1: the redistricting battle in Texas and the whole state legislature thing,

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Speaker 4: Tom, correct, you know there's one judge that had the

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Speaker 2: about it. It's really much to do about nothing though

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Speaker 2: So kudos Judge Jerry Smith for getting the job done

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Speaker 1: As they say, Okay, Tom, we're going to go rapid

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Speaker 2: Issue number two. I'm pretending to be John McLaughlin. Issue

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Speaker 1: Governor Greg Avitt of Texas has outlawed basically care the

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Speaker 2: Boy, I have to say.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes you can be judged by who your friends are.

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Speaker 2: A lot of people see this as a campaign move

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Speaker 2: for Greg Abbot. Everybody's been being him over the head,

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Speaker 2: Let's go hope around. And by the way, when he

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Speaker 2: means that, he means attorney general, you go do it.

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Speaker 2: And so there's gonna be a lot of if anything

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Speaker 2: do this. And so you know, Kim Paxton will be

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Speaker 2: happy to go investigate. He has been looking into this

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Speaker 2: But we're glad there's some kind of investigation going on

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Speaker 2: to this because we know that there are nefarious actors

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Speaker 2: All right, let's get to long pass due.

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Speaker 1: All right, let's get to issue number three, which is

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Speaker 1: I want you to give us an update.

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Speaker 2: You just mentioned Ken Paxson.

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Speaker 1: Ken Paxson has been fighting officially since October, but for

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Speaker 1: a long time before that. This open primary situation we

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Speaker 1: have in Texas, this is insane. These open primary rules

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Speaker 1: are ridiculous. It's really supposed to be about people from

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Speaker 3: So how's that going?

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Speaker 2: Great, Jake? This is my number one issue, really is

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Speaker 2: closing the primaries in Texas. This is the first question

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Speaker 2: Texas is an immediately yes, I want to. In fact,

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Speaker 2: issue is in Texas because when we close the primaries,

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Speaker 2: We're going to start electing our own people. For one.

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Speaker 2: And kudos to the state Party Attorney, missus Rachel Hooper.

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Speaker 2: own taxpayer dollars with greg Aappitt's journeys fighting our own party.

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Speaker 2: That's never a good move. I've tweeted about this numerous

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Speaker 2: interactions with the voters here. Everybody wants closed primaries. Most

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Speaker 2: When they find out, they're shocked. So this is a

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Speaker 2: massive issue, and this is going to neuter the rhinos

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Speaker 2: here in Texas, and it's going to help destroy the Teachers'

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Speaker 2: like House just or twenty one for date feeling and

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Speaker 2: don't forget it. There's only one reason these people get power,

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Speaker 2: blocks from the Teachers' Union. This is a massive battle

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Speaker 2: against the Teachers' Union. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I just Texas is our biggest red state and the

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Speaker 1: fact that we get watered down candidates coming out of

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Speaker 1: All right, Tom, Last issue, because you know it's been

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Speaker 1: almost for a year now, this Texas state lottery scandal

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Speaker 1: where who knows, basically gangsters or incredible speculators got millions

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Speaker 2: Tom, Yeah, you know, I think it really probably should be.

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Speaker 2: There's always going to be people out there trying to

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Speaker 2: game the system, and in this case, it was a

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Speaker 2: gentleman from Melbourne, Australia, ninety five million dollars of a

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Speaker 2: lottery engineered. He ended up walking away with fifty seven

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Speaker 2: point eight million dollars in this scheme. The entity was

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Speaker 2: you can just create an entity. His name was Bernard

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Speaker 2: Martin DELI I believe, but you know, the lot of

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Speaker 2: stealable lottery essentially. So I'm looking forward to the legislature

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Speaker 2: actually doing more than what the Commission has done with this.

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Speaker 2: I think we need to make a bold move and

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Speaker 2: And I wouldn't be upset if we just got rid

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Speaker 2: of it all together, if you ask me, I don't

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Speaker 2: We've got so much billions of dollars coming through the door.

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Speaker 2: Do we really need a lottery that can be corrupted

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Speaker 2: I wouldn't mind getting rid of it personally, and there's

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Speaker 2: But once the corruption has happened once and the Lieutenant

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Speaker 2: Governor's kicking the door in. You know, it's a big deal.

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Speaker 2: It's a problem, and it's not something that you've heard

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Speaker 2: I want to say thank you Jake for covering this.

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Speaker 2: You're one of the few people that have and at

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Speaker 2: least the Chronicle did write about it. Now, kudos did

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Speaker 2: you can read about it, and it's an article probably

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Speaker 2: Greer a Texas Scorecard actually wrote about this weeks ago,

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Speaker 2: So thank god for conservative media. So go check out

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Speaker 2: Daniel Greer Texas Corecard to find out more about this

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I can't believe the Houston Chronicle did something other than

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Speaker 2: That's all they do.

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Speaker 3: But they made an exception this time.

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Speaker 1: Also, I'd like to see these lottery games replaced with

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Speaker 1: All right, Tom slogan, Thank you so much for joining us.

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Speaker 1: A lot going on in Texas.

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Speaker 2: Have a great weekend. Yeah, have a good one, Jay,

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Speaker 2: thanks for having me. All right?

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